Top 10 Johnny Depp Characters - Page 2 of 2 Top 10 Johnny Depp Characters Image Source Portrayed as an american gangster and bank-robber in the Depression-era United States. He was charged, but never convicted, with the murder of an East Chicago police officer. This was his only kill. Dillinger embraced the criminal lifestyle behind bars in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Upon being admitted to the prison he is quoted as saying, “I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here. Image Source Willy Wonka’s behavior is viewed more as a sympathetic character flaw. These aspects of Wonka’s personality are explained in Burton’s version by a strained, conflicted relationship with his father, the dentist Wilbur Wonka – a character created exclusively for this film. Wonka had a traumatic childhood, as his father locked him into dreadful orthodontics that bore more resemblance to a medieval torture device, and every Halloween, he would burn his son’s candy in the fireplace. Eventually, Willy tastes chocolate after sneaking a piece that had fallen from the fire, and starts getting ideas for other candies.

Shortly after, he runs away from home when his father forbids him from becoming a candy maker. When he becomes an adult, Wonka opens his own candy store, with Grandpa Joe being one of Wonka’s first employees. Then several of Wonka’s rivals, notably Mr. Slugworth, plant spies in Wonka’s factory to steal Wonka’s recipes. Wonka became very concerned that his rivals might ruin him and he closed his factory forever by sending all his workers home not sure of which one has been helping his rivals. Additionally, in Burton’s film, Wonka initially refuses to allow Charlie to bring his family to his factory. An eventual reconciliation between Wonka and his father causes Wonka to change his mind and allow Charlie’s family to move in with him as well. Image Source The sensitive and misunderstood creation of an inventor. After the inventor’s death, he was left all alone in the castle without regular hands. Meet Edward Scissorhands. The inventor was inspired to make an artificial man due to the anthropomorphic appearance of his other inventions.

His final result was a humanlike young boy who had everything except for hands, but the inventor had a heart attack and died while in the act of creating a pair of real hands for Edward, leaving him “unfinished” forever. His isolation allowed him to live without a sense of reality, seems cruel to everyone, he has the intrinsic goodness which few possess. Image Source In Tim Burton’s 2010 version of Alice in Wonderland, the Hatter is portrayed by Johnny Depp. He is very brave and loyal to the White Queen, and becomes very emotionally attached to Alice and goes to great lengths to protect her. In this version, his full name is Tarrant Hightopp. Burton explained that Depp “tried to find a grounding to the character, something that you feel, as opposed to just being mad. In a lot of versions it’s a very one-note kind of character and you know his goal was to try and bring out a human side to the strangeness of the character.” The orange hair is an allusion to the mercury poisoning suffered by many hatters who used mercury to cure pelts.

According to Depp: “I think he was poisoned, very, very poisoned, and it was coming out through his hair, through his fingernails and eyes.” In an interview, Depp stated his experience was “A dream come true” and that the Hatter is like “A mood ring, his emotions are very close to the surface” Image Source Sparrow is a trickster who uses wit and deceit to attain his goals, preferring to end disputes verbally instead of by force. He walks with a slightly drunken swagger and has slurred speech and flailing hand gestures, which are slightly based on Tuco, from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. In the context of the films, Sparrow is one of the Brethren Court, the Pirate Lords of the Seven Seas. He can be treacherous, but survives mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than weapons or force, preferring to flee most dangerous situations and fight only when necessary. Sparrow is introduced seeking to regain his ship, the Black Pearl, from his mutinous first mate, Hector Barbossa, and attempts to escape his blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones while battling the East India Trading Co.

1934 newspaper w 4 photos Outlaw JOHN DILLINGER SLAIN | #77900262 1934 newspaper w 4 photos Outlaw JOHN DILLINGER SLAIN Sold for: Start Free Trial or Sign In to see what it's worth. Item Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations Sold Date: Jul 20, 2009 Channel: Auction House Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Santa Fe New Mexican dated Jly 25, 1934. Four photos (1 on front page and other 3 on inside pages) of the DEATH of JOHN DILLINGER . Front page photo shows the dead outlaw on a slab at the morgue. Inside page photos of: Dillinger's girl friend, Mary Longacre; Dillinger himself (in life), and the local Chicago policemen who helped kill Dillinger.

GREAT Dillinger death display newspaper !!! John Herbert Dillinger (June 22 1903–July 22, 1934) was a bank robber in the Midwestern United States during the early 1930s. He was a dangerous criminal, who was responsible for the murder of several police officers, robbed at least two dozen banks and four police stations, and escaped from jail twice, but some people idolized him as a modern-day Robin Hood . He was nicknamed "the Jackrabbit" for his graceful movements during heists, such as leaping over counters and his many narrow getaways from police. The exploits of Dillinger and his gang, along with those of other criminals of the Great Depression such as Bonnie and Clyde and Ma Barker , dominated the attention of the American press and its readers during what is sometimes referred to as the public enemy era (1931-1935), a period which led to the development of the modern, more sophisticated Federal Bureau of Investigation . After spending nearly a year running from police, and hiding out in Florida , Arizona , Michigan , and Wisconsin , Dillinger was wounded in one escape from police and returned to his father's home to heal.

He soon returned to Chicago in July 1934, the site of several of his highest profile crimes. He was discovered t by police, who were informed of his wabouts by a prostitute. On July 22, they closed in on a theater w he was watching a movie, and moved to arrest him as he left the building. He pulled a weapon and attempted to flee, but was shot three times, with a bullet through his face killing him. His crimes were sensationalized across the nation, and his numerous escapes and robberies fed many urban legends in the United States. Dillinger embraced the criminal lifestyle behind bars in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City . Upon being admitted to the prison he is quoted as saying, "I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of " He became embittered against society because of his long prison sentence and befriended other criminals, such as seasoned bank robbers like Harry Pierpont of Muncie and Russell "Boobie" Clark of Terre Haute , who taught Dillinger how to commit crime successfully. The men planned heists that they would commit soon after they were released.

Dillinger was paroled on May 10, 1933 after serving eight and a half years. Released at the height of the Great Depression, Dillinger had little prospect of finding employment. He immediately returned to crime, and on September 22 robbed a bank in Bluffton, Ohio . Tracked by police from Dayton , he was captured and jailed in Lima . After searching him before letting him into the prison, the police discovered a document which appeared to be a prison escape plan. They demanded Dillinger tell them what the document meant, but he refused. Dillinger had helped conceive a plan for the escape of Pierpont, Clark and six others he had met while previously in prison, most of whom worked in the prison laundry. Dillinger had friends smuggle rifles into their prison cells which they used to escape, killing two guards, four days after Dillinger's capture. The group known as the "first Dillinger gang" included Pierpont, Clark, Charles Makley , Edward W. Shouse, Jr., of Terre Haute, Harry Copeland, "Oklahoma Jack" Clark , Walter Dietrich and John "Red" Hamilton .

Three of the escapees arrived in Lima on October 12 w they impersonated Indiana Sta... ... read more Similar Items DILLINGER shot in Chicago Relive some of our best stories. DILLINGER shot in Chicago On July 22, 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside a movie theater in Chicago. 77 years ago! John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. (June 22, 1903 � July 22, 1934) was an American gangster and bank-robber in the Depression-era United States. He was charged with, but never convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago police officer. This was his only alleged kill. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations. Dillinger escaped from jail twice.In 1933-34, among criminals like Lester Gillis (Baby Face Nelson), Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger was the most notorious of all. Media reports were spiced with exaggerated accounts of his bravado and daring. The government demanded federal action and J.

Edgar Hoover developed a more sophisticated Federal Bureau of Investigation as a weapon against organized crime and would use Dillinger and his gang as his campaign platform to launch this FBI . After evading police in four states for almost a year, Dillinger was wounded, and returned to his father's home to recover. He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and met his end at the hands of police and federal agents who were informed of his whereabouts by Ana Cumpanas (the owner of the lodge where Dillinger sought refuge at the time). On July 22, the police and Division of Investigation[2][3] closed in on the Biograph Theater. Federal agents, led by Melvin Purvis, moved to arrest him as he left the theater. He pulled a weapon and attempted to flee but was shot three times and killed. Family and background John Herbert Dillinger, Jr.

was born in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana,[4] the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger (July 2, 1864 � November 3, 1943) and Mary Ellen "Mollie" Lancaster (1860�1907).[5]:p10 According to some biographers, his grandfather, Matthias Dillinger, immigrated to the United States in 1851 from Metz, in the region of Alsace-Lorraine, then under French sovereignty.[6] Matthias Dillinger was born in German-Prussian Gisingen, near Dillingen in the Saarland. Dillinger's parents had married on August 23, 1887 in Marion County, Indiana. Dillinger's father was a grocer by trade and, reportedly, a harsh man.[5]:p9 In an interview with reporters, he said that he was firm in his discipline and believed in the adage (from poet Samuel Butler) "spare the rod and spoil the child".[5]:p12 Dillinger's older sister, Audrey, was born March 6, 1889.

Dillinger's mother died in 1907 just before his fourth birthday.[5][7] Audrey married Emmett "Fred" Hancock in 1907, had seven children and resided in Maywood, Indiana. She died in Indianapolis in March 1987 at the age of 98 years. Dillinger was cared for by his sister during his early life until his father remarried on May 23, 1912 in Morgan County, Indiana, to Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fields (1878�1933). Initially, Dillinger disliked his stepmother, but reportedly eventually came to love her.[8] Dillinger's father and stepmother had three children, Hubert Dillinger, born c. 1913, Doris M. Dillinger, (December 12, 1917 � March 14, 2001) (married surname Hockman) and Frances Dillinger (born c.

1922).[7][9] Formative years and marriage As a teenager, Dillinger was frequently in trouble with the law for fighting and petty theft; he was also noted for his "bewildering personality" and bullying of smaller children.[5]:p14 He quit school to work in an Indianapolis machine shop. Although he worked hard at his job, he would stay out all night at parties. His father feared that the city was corrupting his son, prompting him to move the family to Mooresville, Indiana in about 1920.[5]:p15 Dillinger's wild and rebellious behavior was resilient despite his new rural life. He was arrested in 1922 for auto theft and his relationship with his father deteriorated.[5]:pp16-17 His troubles led him to enlist in the U.S. Navy where he was a Fireman 3rd Class assigned aboard the battleship USS Utah,[10] but he deserted a few months later when his ship was docked in Boston.

He was eventually dishonorably discharged.[5]:pp18-20 Dillinger then returned to Mooresville where he met Beryl Ethel Hovious (born August 6, 1906).[11] The two were married in Martinsville on April 12, 1924. He attempted to settle down, but he had difficulty holding a job and preserving his marriage.[5]:p20 The marriage ended in divorce on June 20, 1929.[7][12] Dillinger remained unable to find a job, and began planning a robbery with his friend Ed Singleton.[5]:p22 The two robbed a local grocery store, stealing $50.[5]:p26 Leaving the scene they were spotted by a minister who recognized the men and reported them to the police. The two men were arrested the next day. Singleton pleaded not guilty, but Dillinger's father convinced him to confess to the crime and plead guilty.[5]:p24 Dillinger was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony.

He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for his crimes.[7] His father told reporters he regretted his advice, and was appalled by the sentence. He pleaded with the judge to shorten the sentence but met with no success.[5]:p25 En route to the prison, Dillinger briefly escaped his captors but was apprehended within a few minutes.[5]:p27 Prison time Dillinger embraced the criminal lifestyle behind bars in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Upon being admitted to the prison he is quoted as saying, "I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here."[5]:p26 His physical examination upon being admitted to the prison showed that he had gonorrhea. The treatment for his condition was extremely painful.[5]:p22 He became embittered against society because of his long prison sentence and befriended other criminals, such as seasoned bank robbers like Harry Pierpont of Muncie and Russell "Boobie" Clark of Terre Haute, who taught Dillinger how to be a successful criminal.

The men planned heists that they would commit soon after they were released.[5]:p32 John Dillinger studied Herman Lamm's meticulous bank-robbing system and used it extensively throughout his criminal career. His father launched a campaign to have him released, and was able to get 188 signatures on a petition. Dillinger was paroled on May 10, 1933 after serving four and a half years. Dillinger's stepmother became sick just before he was released from prison and she died before he arrived at her home.[5]:p37 Released at the height of the Great Depression, Dillinger had little prospect of finding employment.[5]:p35 He immediately returned to crime,[5]:p39 and on August 14 robbed a bank in Bluffton, Ohio. Tracked by police from Dayton, Ohio, he was captured and later transferred to the Allen County jail in Lima to be indicted in connection to the Bluffton robbery. After searching him before letting him into the prison, the police discovered a document which appeared to be a prison escape plan.

They demanded Dillinger tell them what the document meant, but he refused.[7] Dillinger had helped conceive a plan for the escape of Pierpont, Clark and six others he had met while previously in prison, most of whom worked in the prison laundry. Dillinger had friends smuggle rifles into their prison cells which they used to escape, killing two guards, four days after Dillinger's capture. The group known as "The First Dillinger Gang" included Harry "Pete" Pierpont, Russell Clark, Charles Makley, Edward W. Shouse, Jr. of Terre Haute, Harry Copeland, James "Oklahoma Jack" Clark, John "Red" Hamilton and Dillinger's mentor Walter Dietrich, a member of the Herman Lamm Gang. Three of the escapees arrived in Lima on October 12, where they impersonated Indiana State Police officers, claiming they had come to extradite Dillinger to Indiana. When sheriff Sarber asked for their credentials, they shot him and beat him unconscious, then released Dillinger from his cell.

The four men escaped back into Indiana where they joined the rest of the gang.[7] Sherriff Sarber was the gang's first police killing of an estimated 13 lawmen deaths by Dillinger gang members.[13] Bank robberies The Bureau of Investigation (BOI, a precursor of The FBI)[2] was brought into the investigation to help identify the criminals, although the men had not violated any federal law. It was one of the first cases in which The BOI intervened in matters outside its jurisdiction. Using their superior fingerprint matching technology, they successfully identified all of the suspects and issued national bulletins offering rewards for their capture.[7] Dillinger and his gang, in the meantime, began a streak of bank robberies across Indiana, although the first bank he ever robbed was The National Bank in New Carlisle, Ohio of $10,600 on June 10, 1933. Among Dillinger's more celebrated exploits was his pretending to be a sales representative for a company that sold bank alarm systems. He reportedly entered a number of Indiana and Ohio banks and used this ruse to assess security systems and bank vaults of prospective targets.

Another time, the gang pretended to be part of a film company that was scouting locations for a "bank robbery" scene. Bystanders stood and smiled as a real robbery ensued and Dillinger and friends escaped with the loot. Stories such as this only served to increase Dillinger's burgeoning legend. Mason City | Des Nnochiri's Write to Speak Des Nnochiri's Write to Speak 'Cos That's What We Do, Here Hey there! Thanks for dropping by Des Nnochiri's Write to Speak! Take a look around and grab the RSS feed to stay updated. See you around! Filed under: Uncategorized — Leave a comment June 21, 2013 John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations. Dillinger was the most notorious of all the Depression-era outlaws, standing out even among more violent criminals such as Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde. Media reports in his time were spiced with exaggerated accounts of Dillinger’s bravado and daring, and his colorful personality.

In the 2009 film “Public Enemies”, John Dillinger was played by Johnny Depp. Video comes courtesy of YouTube: Hollywood saw things that way. History has this, to tell us: Dillinger’s Early life John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger and Mary Ellen “Mollie” Lancaster. Dillinger’s father was a grocer by trade and, reportedly, a harsh disciplinarian. Dillinger’s older sister, Audrey, was born March 6, 1889. Their mother died in 1907 just before John’s fourth birthday. Audrey married Emmett “Fred” Hancock that year and they had seven children together. She cared for her brother John for several years until their father remarried in 1912 to Elizabeth “Lizzie” Fields. They had three children, Hubert, Doris M. and Frances Dillinger. A Rebellious Youth As a teenager, Dillinger was frequently in trouble with the law for fighting and petty theft.

He was also noted for his “bewildering personality” and bullying of smaller children. He quit school to work in an Indianapolis machine shop. His father moved the family to Mooresville, Indiana, in about 1920. Dillinger’s rebellious behavior continued, despite their new rural setting. He was arrested in 1922 for auto theft, and his relationship with his father deteriorated. He enlisted in the United States Navy, where he was made a Fireman 3rd Class assigned to the battleship USS Utah. He deserted a few months later, when his ship was docked in Boston. He was eventually dishonorably discharged. Dillinger returned to Mooresville, where he met Beryl Ethel Hovious. The two were married on April 12, 1924. The marriage ended in divorce on June 20, 1929. Dillinger was unable to find a job, and planned a robbery with his friend Ed Singleton. The two robbed a local grocery store, stealing $50. Leaving the scene they were spotted by a minister who recognized the men, and reported them to the police. The two were arrested the next day.

Singleton pleaded not guilty, but after Dillinger’s father (the local Mooresville Church deacon) discussed the matter with Morgan County prosecutor Omar O’Harrow, his father convinced John to confess to the crime and plead guilty without retaining a defense attorney. Dillinger was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony. He expected a lenient probation sentence, but instead was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for his crimes. En route to Mooresville to testify against Singleton, Dillinger briefly escaped, but was apprehended within a few minutes. School of Hard Knocks Dillinger embraced the life behind bars in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Upon being admitted, he is quoted as saying, “I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here.” He soon befriended other criminals, such as seasoned bank robbers like Harry “Pete” Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, and Homer Van Meter, who taught Dillinger how to be a successful criminal. The men planned heists that they would commit soon after they were released.

Dillinger studied Herman Lamm’s meticulous bank-robbing system, and used it extensively throughout his criminal career. Outside Moves Dillinger’s father launched a campaign to have him released, and was able to get 188 signatures on a petition. Dillinger was paroled on May 10, 1933, after serving nine and a half years. Released at the height of the Great Depression, Dillinger had little prospect of finding employment. He immediately returned to crime. On June 21, 1933, he robbed his first bank, taking $10,000 from the New Carlisle National Bank, in New Carlisle, Ohio. On August 14, Dillinger robbed a bank in Bluffton, Ohio. Tracked by police from Dayton, Ohio, he was captured and later transferred to the Allen County jail in Lima to be indicted in connection to the Bluffton robbery. After searching him before letting him into the prison, the police discovered a document which appeared to be a prison escape plan. They demanded Dillinger tell them what the document meant, but he refused.

Dillinger had helped conceive a plan for the escape of Pierpont, Clark and six others he had met in prison, most of whom worked in the prison laundry. Dillinger had friends smuggle guns into their prison cells, with which they escaped, four days after Dillinger’s capture. The group, known as “the First Dillinger Gang,” comprised Pete Pierpont, Russell Clark, Charles Makley, Ed Shouse, Harry Copeland, and John “Red” Hamilton, a member of the Herman Lamm Gang. Pierpont, Clark, and Makley arrived in Lima on October 12, where they impersonated Indiana State Police officers, claiming they had come to extradite Dillinger to Indiana. When the sheriff, Jess Sarber, asked for their credentials, Pierpont shot him dead, then released Dillinger from his cell. The four men escaped back into Indiana. Methods and Means The Bureau of Investigation (BOI), a precursor to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was brought in to help identify the fugitives – although the men had not violated any federal law. Using their superior fingerprint matching technology, they successfully identified all of the suspects, and issued nationwide bulletins offering rewards for their capture.

But the crooks had methods of their own. Among Dillinger’s more celebrated exploits was his pretending to be a sales representative for a company that sold bank alarm systems – and then “testing” a bank’s security by carrying out an actual robbery. He reportedly entered a number of Indiana and Ohio banks and used this ruse to assess security systems and bank vaults of prospective targets. Another time (allegedly) the men pretended to be part of a film company that was scouting locations for a “bank robbery” scene. Bystanders stood and smiled as a real robbery ensued, and Dillinger’s gang fled. Dillinger was believed to have been associated with gangs who robbed dozens of banks and accumulated a total of more than $300,000. To obtain supplies, the gang attacked the state police arsenals in Auburn and Peru, stealing machine guns, rifles, revolvers, ammunition and bulletproof vests. On October 23, 1933, the gang robbed the Central National Bank & Trust Company in Greencastle, Indiana. They then headed to Chicago to hide out.

The Shanley Case On December 14, 1933, Chicago Police Department (CPD) Detective William Shanley was killed. The police had been put on high alert and suspected the Dillinger gang of involvement in the robbery of the Unity Trust And Savings Bank of $8,700 the day before. Shanley was following up on a tip that one of the gang’s cars was being serviced at a local garage. John “Red” Hamilton showed up at the garage that afternoon. When Shanley approached, Hamilton pulled a pistol and shot him twice, fatally, then escaped. Shanley’s murder led the Chicago Police Department to establish a forty man “Dillinger Squad”. As police began closing in, the men left Chicago to hide out first in Florida, later at the Gardner Hotel in El Paso, Texas (where a highly visible police presence dissuaded Dillinger from trying to cross the border at the Santa Fe Bridge in downtown El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico), and finally in Tucson, Arizona. Capture On January 21, 1934, a fire broke out at the Hotel Congress in Tucson, where members of the Dillinger gang were staying.

Forced to leave their luggage behind, they were evacuated through a window, and down a fire truck ladder. Charles Makley and Russell Clark tipped a couple of firemen $12 to climb back up and retrieve their luggage. One of the firefighters, William Benedict, later recognized Makley, Pierpont, and Ed Shouse while thumbing through a copy of True Detective and informed the police, who tracked Makley’s luggage to a second hideout. Makley was the first to be arrested. Clark was next. To arrest Pierpont, the police staged a routine traffic stop and lured him to the police station, where they took him by surprise. Dillinger was the last to be arrested. The police found the men in possession of over $25,000 in cash and several automatic weapons. Tucson still celebrates the historic arrest with an annual “Dillinger Days” festival, the highlight of which is a reenactment of the events. Extradition The men were extradited to the Midwest after a debate between prosecutors as to where the gang would be prosecuted first.

The governor ordered that Dillinger should be extradited to the Lake County Jail in Crown Point for Officer O’Malley’s murder in the East Chicago bank robbery, while Pierpont, Makley and Clark were sent to Ohio to stand trial for Sheriff Sarber’s murder. Shouse’s testimony at the March 1934 trials of Pierpont, Makley and Clark led to all three of the men being convicted. Pierpont and Makley received the death penalty, while Clark received a life sentence. Escape from Crown Point The police boasted to area newspapers that the Crown Point jail was escape-proof – and posted extra guards, to make sure. There is still some debate as to what happened on the day of Dillinger’s escape in early March. Deputy Ernest Blunk claimed that Dillinger had escaped using a real pistol, but FBI files indicate that Dillinger carved a fake pistol from a piece of wood. How he acquired such a thing is still the subject of controversy. Sam Cahoon (the janitor that Dillinger first took hostage in the jail) believed that Dillinger had carved the gun with a razor and some shelving in his cell.

However, according to an unpublished interview with Dillinger’s attorney, Louis Piquett, and his investigator, Art O’Leary, it was later revealed that O’Leary claimed to have smuggled the gun in himself. What is known is that Dillinger’s wooden pistol was modeled after a Colt .38. He tricked a guard into opening his cell, took seventeen men hostage, used Deputy Blunk to lure the guards back to the cell block one at a time, locked them in his cell, and fled with another inmate (Herbert Youngblood). Dillinger stole Sheriff Lillian Holley’s new Ford car (embarrassing her, and the town), and traveled to Chicago. In so doing, he crossed the state line in a stolen car – breaking the federal Motor Vehicle Theft Act. The crime was under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Investigation, who immediately took over the Dillinger case after the car was found abandoned in Chicago. Youngblood was killed in a police shootout two weeks later. Dillinger was indicted by a local grand jury, and the BOI organized a nationwide manhunt for him.

On the Run After escaping Crown Point, Dillinger began living with his girlfriend Evelyn “Billie” Frechette. They proceeded to Saint Paul, Minnesota, met up with Hamilton and a few others, and joined Baby Face Nelson’s gang, composed of Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll and Eddie Green. Three days after Dillinger’s escape, the six men robbed the Security National Bank and Trust Company in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. During the robbery, a traffic cop, Hale Keith, was severely wounded when Nelson shot Keith, through a plate glass window. A week later, on March 14, the new gang robbed the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa, intending to get $250,000 but only making off with $50,000 due to the bank manager’s stalling tactics. Dillinger and Hamilton were both shot in their right shoulders and wounded. The landlord of the apartment Dillinger rented in St. Paul became suspicious, and on March 30, 1934, reported his suspicions to a federal agent. The building was placed under surveillance by two agents, Rufus Coulter and Rusty Nalls.

The next day, Nalls remained with his car while Coulter and a local St. Paul Police detective, Henry Cummings, went up to the apartment. They came face to face with Billie, who alerted Dillinger to the police presence. Dillinger immediately started assembling his submachine gun while the two detectives were kept waiting at the door. Van Meter showed up, and sensed trouble. After exchanging brief words with Coulter, he headed back downstairs to his car, which he had parked next to Nalls. Coulter followed him down to the ground floor, where Van Meter pulled out a pistol and opened fire on him. Coulter ran for the car and fired several shots before Van Meter retreated inside. Dillinger fired through the apartment door upstairs at Cummings, then fled out of a back entrance with Frechette and Van Meter, before back-up could arrive. They commandeered a truck and drove to Eddie Green’s home. Dillinger was hit in the leg by a ricochet from his own gun and required medical attention. Federal agents later closed in on the building, and the gang opened fire as they escaped and split up. Eddie Green was shot in the head when agents captured him.

He lasted for a week, before dying on April 10. Meanwhile, Dillinger and Frechette traveled to visit Dillinger’s father in Mooresville, where they remained until Dillinger’s wound healed. When Frechette returned to Chicago to visit a friend, she was arrested, but refused to reveal Dillinger’s whereabouts. Unknown to the agents, Dillinger was waiting in his car outside the bar where Frechette was arrested, and drove off unnoticed. Still Making Moves Dillinger reportedly became despondent after Billie was arrested. The other gang members tried to talk to him out of rescuing her, but Van Meter knew where they could find bulletproof vests. That Friday morning, late at night, Dillinger and Van Meter took Warsaw, Indiana police officer Judd Pittenger hostage. They marched him at gunpoint to the police station, where they stole several more guns and bulletproof vests. After separating, Dillinger picked up Hamilton, who was recovering from the Mason City robbery. The two then traveled to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where they visited Hamilton’s sister Anna Steve.

Upon his return to Chicago, Dillinger again ran into the police in Port Huron, Michigan following a tip that he was checking in on one of his bootlegging operations. Dillinger received a bullet to the left shoulder while avoiding capture. Dillinger got a tip that federal agents were headed there, and left just days before they arrived. Little Bohemia Lodge In April, the Dillinger gang settled at a hideout called Little Bohemia Lodge, in the northern Wisconsin town of Manitowish Waters. The gang assumed the owners, Emil Wanatka and his family, would give no trouble, but monitored them whenever they left or spoke on the phone. Emil’s wife Nan and her brother managed to evade Baby Face Nelson, who was tailing them, and mailed a letter of warning to a U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago, which later contacted the Division of Investigation. Days later, a score of federal agents led by Hugh Clegg and Melvin Purvis approached the lodge in the early morning hours. Two barking watchdogs announced their arrival, but the gang was so used to Nan Wanatka’s dogs that they did not bother to inspect the disturbance.

It was only after the federal agents mistakenly shot a local resident and two innocent Civilian Conservation Corps workers as they were about to drive away in a car that the Dillinger gang was alerted to the presence of the BOI. Gunfire between the groups lasted only moments, and the whole gang managed to escape in various ways despite the agents’ efforts to surround and storm the lodge. Agent W. Carter Baum was shot dead by Nelson during the gun battle. Aftermath of Little Bohemia The next day, Dillinger, Van Meter and Hamilton were confronted by authorities in Hastings, Minnesota, in a rolling gunfight. Hamilton was mortally wounded in the encounter. He died in Aurora, Illinois, three days after the shooting. Dillinger, Van Meter, Arthur Barker, and Volney Davis (a member of the Barker-Karpis gang) buried him. Dillinger and Van Meter then met up with Carroll. One week after Hamilton’s death, Dillinger, Van Meter, and Tommy Carroll robbed the First National Bank of Fostoria, Ohio. Van Meter wounded the local police chief, Frank Culp, during the robbery.

Dillinger and Van Meter spent most of May living out of a red panel truck with a mattress in the back. On June 7, Tommy Carroll was shot and killed by police in Waterloo, Iowa. Dillinger and Van Meter reunited with Nelson a week later, and went into hiding. On June 30, Dillinger, Van Meter, Nelson, and an unidentified “fat man” robbed the Merchants National Bank in South Bend, Indiana. The identity of the “fat man” has never been confirmed, although it has been suggested (by Fatso Negri to the BOI) that it was Pretty Boy Floyd. What is known is that in the robbery, Van Meter shot and killed police officer Howard Wagner as he walked towards the bank from a nearby intersection after being drawn by the sound of gunfire. Van Meter would be shot in the head during a shootout with police that followed the robbery. The Elusive Mr. Lawrence By July 1934, Dillinger had dropped completely out of sight, and federal agents had no solid leads to follow. He had, in fact, drifted into Chicago and went under the alias of Jimmy Lawrence, a petty criminal from Wisconsin who bore a close resemblance to Dillinger’s real self.

What Dillinger did not realize was that the center of the federal agents’ dragnet happened to be in Chicago. When the authorities found Dillinger’s blood spattered getaway car on a Chicago side street, they were positive that he was in the city. The Woman in Red Division of Investigations chief J. Edgar Hoover created a special task force headquartered in Chicago, to locate Dillinger. On July 21, a madam from a brothel in Gary, Indiana – Ana Cumpănaş, also known as Anna Sage – contacted the police. She was a Romanian immigrant threatened with deportation for “low moral character”, and offered the federal agency information on Dillinger in exchange for their help in preventing her deportation. The agency agreed to her terms, but she was later deported. Cumpănaş told them that Dillinger was spending his time with another prostitute, Polly Hamilton, and that she and the couple would be going to see a movie together, the following day. She agreed to wear an orange dress – which is believed to have appeared red in the artificial lights of the theater – so that police could easily identify her.

She was unsure which of two theaters they would be attending but told the agency their names: the Biograph and the Marbro. A team of federal agents and officers from police forces outside Chicago was formed, along with a very few Chicago police officers (Federal officials felt that the Chicago police had been compromised and could not be trusted). Among them was Sergeant Martin Zarkovich, to whom Sage had informed on Dillinger. Not wanting another embarrassing escape, the police were split into two teams. On July 22, one team was sent to the Marbro Theater on the city’s west side, while another team surrounded the Biograph Theater at 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue on the north side. During the stakeout, the Biograph’s manager thought the agents were criminals setting up a robbery. He called the Chicago police, who dutifully responded and had to be waved off by the federal agents, who told them that they were on a stakeout for an important target. The Biograph Theater Dillinger attended the film “Manhattan Melodrama” at the Biograph Theater in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, with Polly Hamilton and Ana Cumpănaş.

Once they had determined that Dillinger was in the theater, the lead agent, Samuel P. Cowley, contacted J. Edgar Hoover for instructions. Hoover recommended that they wait outside, rather than risk a gun battle in a crowded theater. He also told the agents not to put themselves in harm’s way, and that any man could open fire on Dillinger at the first sign of resistance. When the film let out, Purvis stood by the front door and signaled Dillinger’s exit by lighting a cigar. Both he and the other agents reported that Dillinger turned his head and looked directly at the agent as he walked by, glanced across the street, then moved ahead of his female companions. Dillinger reached into his pocket but failed to extract his gun, then ran into a nearby alley. Other accounts state that Dillinger ignored a command to surrender, whipped out his gun, then headed for the alley. Agents already had the alley closed off, but Dillinger was determined to shoot it out. Three men fired the fatal shots: Clarence Hurt fired twice, Charles Winstead fired three times, and Herman Hollis fired once. Dillinger was hit from behind, and fell face first to the ground.

He was struck three (or four, according to some historians) times, with two bullets entering the chest, one of them nicking his heart, and the fatal shot – which entered Dillinger through the back of his neck, severed his spinal cord and tore through his brain before exiting out the front of his head just under his right eye. Although three agents shot Dillinger, Winstead was believed to be the man who fired the fatal round, and he received a personal letter of commendation from Director Hoover. Two female bystanders took slight flesh wounds from flying bullet and brick fragments. An ambulance was summoned, though it was clear that Dillinger had quickly died from his gunshot wounds. At 10:50 p.m. on July 22, 1934, Dillinger was pronounced dead at Alexian Brothers Hospital. According to the investigators, Dillinger died without saying a word. Dillinger’s body was displayed to the public at the Cook County morgue after his death. He was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery (Section: 44, Lot: 94) in Indianapolis.

His gravestone has had to be replaced several times, because of vandalism by people chipping off pieces as souvenirs. The Nash Theory of Dillinger’s Escape In “The Dillinger Dossier”, author Jay Robert Nash maintains that Dillinger escaped death at the Biograph Theater simply by not being there. In his stead was “Jimmy Lawrence” – a local Chicago petty criminal whose appearance was similar to Dillinger’s. Nash uses evidence to show that Chicago Police officer Martin Zarkovich was instrumental in this plot. Nash theorizes that the plot unraveled when the body was found to have fingerprints that didn’t match Dillinger’s (the fingerprint card was missing from the Cook County Morgue for over three decades), the body was too tall, the eye color was wrong, and it possessed a rheumatic heart. The F.B.I. – a relatively new agency whose agents were only recently permitted to carry guns or make arrests – would have fallen under heavy scrutiny, this being the third innocent man killed in pursuit of Dillinger. The Bureau would have gone to great lengths to ensure a cover up. In shooting “Lawrence”, F.B.I.

agents were stationed on the roof of the theater and fired downward, causing the open cuts on the face which were described through the media as “scars resulting from inept plastic surgery.” The first words from Dillinger’s father upon identifying the body were “that’s not my boy.” The body itself was buried under five feet of concrete and steel, making exhumation less likely. Nash produced fingerprints and photos of Dillinger as he would appear in 1960, that were allegedly sent to Melvin Purvis just prior to his own 1960 alleged suicide. Nash alleged that Dillinger was living and working in California as a machinist, under what would have been an early form of the witness protection program. Just another aspect of Dillinger folklore? Who knows? In any event, this story ends, here. Hope you’ll join me, for the next one. Till then. Peace. 1000+ images about MOBSTERS! on Pinterest | Pretty boy floyd, Boss and Carlo gambino Forward John Dillinger robbed 24 banks and four police stations and escaped from jail twice. This is Dillinger being led through the court building at Crown Point, on Jan.

31, 1934, where he was on trial for the First National Bank robbery that occurred on Jan. 15, 1934 in East Chicago See More Dillinger : Wikis (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki Dillinger: Wikis Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics (Redirected to John Dillinger article) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Dillinger" redirects here. For other uses, see Dillinger (disambiguation) . John Herbert Dillinger Imprisonment from 1924 to 1933 Spouse Beryl Hovious (divorced) John Herbert Dillinger Jr. (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Midwest during the early 1930s.

He was considered to be a dangerous criminal who was involved in the deaths of several police officers, robbed at least two dozen banks and four police stations, escaped from jail twice and was idolized by some as a modern-day Robin Hood . The exploits of Dillinger and his gang, along with those of other criminals of the Great Depression such as Bonnie and Clyde and Ma Barker , dominated the attention of the American press and its readers during what is sometimes referred to as the public enemy era (1931–1935), a period which led to the development of the modern, more sophisticated Federal Bureau of Investigation . After spending nearly a year running from police, and hiding out in Florida , Arizona , Michigan , and Wisconsin , Dillinger was wounded in one escape from police and returned to his father's home to heal. He soon returned to Chicago in July 1934, the site of several of his highest profile crimes. He was discovered there by police, who were informed of his whereabouts by a prostitute. On July 22, the police and Bureau of Investigation closed in on the Biograph Theater in Chicago where Dillinger had gone to see a gangster movie, Manhattan Melodrama , starring Clark Gable .

Dillinger was accompanied by " Anna Sage ," the so-called "woman in red," whose dress color supposedly helped police positively identify Dillinger. Bureau of Investigation agents, led by Melvin Purvis , moved to arrest him as he left the theater and he pulled a weapon and attempted to flee, but was shot three times. One bullet entered through the back of his neck and exited from his face, killing him. The crime scene and even Dillinger's autopsy immediately took on a sensationalized, circus-like atmosphere. Dillinger's crimes were sensationalized across the nation, and his numerous escapes and robberies fed many urban legends in the United States. Several movies have been made about his life and death; the latest, Public Enemies , stars Johnny Depp as Dillinger and Christian Bale as Bureau of Investigation agent Purvis. Contents Early life Family and background John Herbert Dillinger Jr. was born in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana , the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger (July 2, 1864 – November 3, 1943) and Mary Ellen "Mollie" Lancaster (1860–1907).

[1] His grandfather, Mathias Dillinger, immigrated to the United States in 1851 from Metz , in the German-speaking region of Alsace-Lorraine , then under French sovereignty . [2] His parents had married on August 23, 1887 in Marion County, Indiana . Dillinger's father was a grocer by trade and, reportedly, a harsh man. [3] In an interview with reporters, he said that he was firm in his discipline and believed in the adage (from poet Samuel Butler ) "spare the rod and spoil the child". [4] Dillinger's older sister, Audrey, was born March 6, 1889. Dillinger's mother died in 1907 just before his fourth birthday. [3] [5] Audrey married Emmett "Fred" Hancock in April 1924 and had seven children. Dillinger was cared for by his sister during his early life until his father remarried on May 23, 1912 in Morgan County, Indiana , to Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fields (1878–1933).

Initially, Dillinger disliked his stepmother, but reportedly eventually came to love her. [6] Dillinger's father and stepmother had three children, Hubert Dillinger, born c. 1913, Doris M. Dillinger, (December 12, 1917 – March 14, 2001) (married surname Hockman) and Frances Dillinger (born c. 1922). [5] [7] Formative years and marriage As a teenager, Dillinger was frequently in trouble with the law for fighting, petty theft, and was noted for his "bewildering personality" and bullying the smaller children. [8] He quit school to work in an Indianapolis machine shop. Although he worked hard at his job, he would stay out all night at parties. His father feared that the city was corrupting his son, prompting him to move the family to Mooresville, Indiana in about 1920. [9] Dillinger's wild and rebellious behavior was resilient despite his new rural life. He was arrested in 1922 for auto theft and his relationship with his father deteriorated.

[10] His troubles led him to enlist in the U.S. Navy , but he deserted a few months later when his ship was docked in Boston . He was eventually dishonorably discharged . [5] [11] Dillinger then returned to Mooresville where he met Beryl Ethel Hovious (born August 6, 1906). [12] The two were married in Martinsville on April 12, 1924. He attempted to settle down, but he had difficulty holding a job and preserving his marriage. [13] The marriage ended in divorce on June 20, 1929. [5] [14] Dillinger remained unable to find a job, and began planning a robbery with his friend Ed Singleton. [15] The two robbed a local grocery store stealing $50 [16] . Leaving the scene they were spotted by a minister who recognized the men and reported them to the police. The two men were arrested the next day. Singleton pleaded not guilty, but Dillinger's father convinced him to confess to the crime and plead guilty.

[17] Dillinger was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony . He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for his crimes. [5] His father told reporters he regretted his advice, and was appalled by the sentence. He pleaded with the judge to shorten the sentence but met with no success. [18] En route to the prison, Dillinger briefly escaped his captors but was apprehended within a few minutes. [19] Criminal career Prison time Dillinger embraced the criminal lifestyle behind bars in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City . Upon being admitted to the prison he is quoted as saying, "I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here." [20] His physical examination upon being admitted to the prison showed that he had gonorrhea . The treatment for his condition was extremely painful.

[21] He became embittered against society because of his long prison sentence and befriended other criminals, such as seasoned bank robbers like Harry Pierpont of Muncie and Russell "Boobie" Clark of Terre Haute , who taught Dillinger how to be a successful criminal. The men planned heists that they would commit soon after they were released. [5] [22] His father launched a campaign to have him released, and was able to get 188 signatures on a petition. Dillinger was paroled on May 10, 1933 after serving eight and a half years. Dillinger's stepmother became sick just before he was released from prison and she died before he arrived at her home. [23] Released at the height of the Great Depression , Dillinger had little prospect of finding employment. [24] He immediately returned to crime, [25] and on September 22 robbed a bank in Bluffton, Ohio . Tracked by police from Dayton, Ohio , he was captured and jailed in Lima . After searching him before letting him into the prison, the police discovered a document which appeared to be a prison escape plan.

They demanded Dillinger tell them what the document meant, but he refused. [5] Dillinger had helped conceive a plan for the escape of Pierpont, Clark and six others he had met while previously in prison, most of whom worked in the prison laundry. Dillinger had friends smuggle rifles into their prison cells which they used to escape, killing two guards, four days after Dillinger's capture. The group known as the "first Dillinger gang" included Pierpont, Clark, Charles Makley , Edward W. Shouse, Jr. of Terre Haute, Harry Copeland, James "Oklahoma Jack" Clark , Walter Dietrich and John "Red" Hamilton . Three of the escapees arrived in Lima on October 12, where they impersonated Indiana State Police officers, claiming they had come to extradite Dillinger to Indiana. When the sheriff asked for their credentials, they shot him and beat him unconscious, then released Dillinger from his cell. The four men escaped back into Indiana where they joined the rest of the gang.

[5] Bank robberies The Bureau of Investigation (BOI, precursor of the FBI) [26] was brought into the investigation to help identify the criminals, although the men had not violated any federal law. It was one of the first cases in which the DOI intervened in matters outside its jurisdiction. Using their superior fingerprint matching technology, they successfully identified all of the suspects and issued national bulletins offering rewards for their capture. [5] Dillinger and his gang, in the meantime, began a streak of bank robberies across Indiana, although the first bank he ever robbed was in New Carlisle, Ohio on June 10, 1933 . Among Dillinger's more celebrated exploits involved his pretending to be a sales representative for a company that sold bank alarm systems. He reportedly entered a number of Indiana and Ohio banks and used this ruse to assess security systems and bank vaults of prospective targets. Another time, the gang pretended to be part of a film company that was scouting locations for a "bank robbery" scene. Bystanders stood and smiled as a real robbery ensued and Dillinger and friends escaped with the loot. Stories such as this only served to increase Dillinger's burgeoning legend.

Dillinger was believed to have been associated with gangs who robbed dozens of banks and accumulating a total of more than $300,000.

Banks allegedly robbed by Dillinger and his associates included the Commercial Bank, Daleville, Indiana of $3,500 on July 17, 1933; Montpelier National Bank, Montpelier, Indiana of $6,700 on August 4, 1933; Bluffton Bank, Bluffton, Ohio , of $6,000 on August 14, 1933; Massachusetts Avenue State Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana, of $21,000 on September 6, 1933; Central National Bank and Trust Co., Greencastle, Indiana , of $76,000 on October 23, 1933; American Bank and Trust Co., Racine, Wisconsin , of $28,000 on November 20, 1933; Unity Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, Illinois, of $8,700 on December 13, 1933; First National Bank, East Chicago, Indiana , of $20,000 on January 15, 1934; Securities National Bank and Trust Co., Sioux

 Falls, South Dakota , of $49,500 on March 6, 1934; First National Bank, Mason City, Iowa , of $52,000 on March 13, 1934; and Merchants National Bank, South Bend, Indiana , of $29,890 on June 30, 1934.

[5] To get more supplies, the gang attacked the state police arsenals in Auburn and Peru , stealing machine guns , rifles, revolvers, ammunition and bulletproof vests. [5] They then headed to Chicago to hide out. On December 14, Gang member John "Red" Hamilton murdered a police detective. A month later, Dillinger led the gang in another bank robbery, holding up the First National Bank in East Chicago and killing police officer William O'Malley. Dillinger was officially charged with the murder although the identity of the actual killer was debatable, and it is in question whether Dillinger participated in the robbery at all. [27] As police began closing in again, the men left Chicago to hide out first in Florida ; later at the Gardener Hotel in El Paso, Texas , where a highly visible police presence dissuaded Dillinger from trying to cross the border at the Santa Fe bridge in downtown El Paso to Ciudad Juárez , Mexico ; and finally in Tucson, Arizona . [5] On the run John Dillinger's Wanted Poster A fire broke out at the Hotel Congress in Tucson where members of the Dillinger gang were staying.

Forced to leave their luggage behind, they were rescued through a window and down a fire truck ladder. Charles Makley tipped a couple of firemen $12 to climb back up and retrieve the luggage, affording the firefighters a good look at several members of Dillinger's gang. The firemen later recognized Makley and Ed Shouse while thumbing through a copy of True Detective and informed the police who promptly arrested Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, Ed Shouse, and Dillinger. [28] They found them in possession of over $25,000 in cash and several automatic weapons. Tucson celebrates the historic arrest with an annual "Dillinger Days" festival, the highlight of which is a reenactment. [29] The men were extradited to Indiana, where Dillinger was held in the Crown Point jail, while the others were then sent to Ohio to stand trial for the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarber.

Testimony by Shouse identified the five men as members of the Pierpont gang.[citation needed] Dillinger was charged with the murder of a police officer in East Chicago, while Pierpont and Makley were charged with the murder of Sheriff Jesse Sarber.[citation needed] The police boasted to area newspapers that the jail was escape-proof and posted extra guards to make sure. Dillinger was able to secretly carve a wooden gun in his cell. Using it, he was able to trick a guard into opening his cell. He then took two men hostage, rounded up all the guards in the jail, locked them in his cell, and fled. [30] Dillinger stole Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford car, embarrassing her and the town, and traveled to Chicago. [30] In so doing, he crossed the state line in a stolen car, breaking the federal Motor Vehicle Theft Act. The crime was under the jurisdiction of the DOI who immediately took over the Dillinger case after the car was found abandoned in Chicago.

Dillinger was indicted by a local grand jury and the DOI organized a nationwide manhunt for him.[citation needed] In Chicago, Dillinger began living with his girlfriend Evelyn "Billie" Frechette . They proceeded to Saint Paul, Minnesota , met up with "Red" Hamilton, and mustered a new gang, adding Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis , Homer Van Meter , Tommy Carroll , Joseph Fox, Joe Burns, James Jenkins, and Eddie Green . The landlord of their apartment became suspicious and on March 30, 1934, reported his suspicions to a federal agent. The building was placed under surveillance by the DOI agents who soon determined Dillinger was in the apartment. [5] When one gang member, who was attempting to enter the apartment, was questioned, he opened fire on the agents before escaping behind a closed door. The entire gang then opened fire on the agents and fled out of a back entrance before back-up could arrive. They commandeered a truck and drove to Eddie Green's home. Dillinger was wounded in the escape and required medical attention. Federal agents later closed in on the building and the gang opened fire as they escaped and split up. Eddie Green was killed in the escape.

Dillinger and his girlfriend traveled to the home of Dillinger's father in Mooresville, where they remained until the wound healed. When Frechette returned to Chicago to visit a friend, she was arrested but refused to reveal Dillinger's whereabouts. Dillinger was watching from a side street and wanted to rescue her, but he was stopped by the girlfriend of John Hamilton , who convinced him he would die in the attempt. Yet he still drove along the block several times and entered a police station to see if it was possible.[citation needed] Dillinger returned to crime again. He and Homer Van Meter robbed the police station in Warsaw, Indiana , stealing guns and bulletproof vests . After separating, Dillinger picked up Hamilton, who was recovering from a wound obtained in a heist in Mason City, Iowa . The two then traveled to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , where they remained for a short time. Dillinger received a tip that the DOI was headed to the town, and left just days before the agents arrived.

[5] Final months Little Bohemia Lodge In April, the Dillinger gang settled at a lodge hideout called Little Bohemia Lodge , owned by Emil Wanatka, in the northern Wisconsin town of Manitowish Waters . The gang assured the owners that they would give no trouble, but they monitored the owners whenever they left or spoke on the phone. Emil's wife Nan and her brother managed to evade Baby Face Nelson , who was tailing them, and mailed a letter of warning to a U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago, which later contacted the DOI. Days later, a score of DOI agents led by Hugh Clegg and Melvin Purvis approached the lodge in the early morning hours. Two barking watchdogs announced their arrival, but the gang was so used to Nan Wanatka's dogs that they did not bother to inspect the disturbance. It was only after the DOI mistakenly shot a local resident and two innocent Civilian Conservation Corps workers as they were about to drive away in a car that the Dillinger gang was alerted to the presence of the DOI. [31] Gunfire between the groups lasted only momentarily, but the whole gang managed to escape in various ways despite the DOI's efforts to surround and storm the lodge.

Agent W. Carter Baum was shot dead by "Baby Face" Nelson during the gun battle. Barney G. Louis Boeding accompanied him during the robberies. [5] [32] At this time Nelson would separate from the gang for a while. The next day, Dillinger, Van Meter and Hamilton were confronted by authorities in Hastings, Minnesota . Hamilton was mortally wounded in the encounter. He was taken by Dillinger and Van Meter to see Joseph Moran, though Moran refused to treat Hamilton. He died on April 30, 1934. Dillinger, Van Meter, and members of the Barker-Karpis gang buried him. Dillinger and Van Meter then met up with Carroll and the three would spend all of May in hiding. On June 7, the three had a shootout with authorities and Carroll died in the encounter. Dillinger and Van Meter reunited with Nelson a week later and went into hiding. By July 1934, Dillinger had dropped completely out of sight and the DOI had no solid leads to follow.

He had, in fact, drifted into Chicago and went under the alias of Jimmy Lawrence, a petty criminal from Wisconsin who bore a close resemblance to the bank robber. Taking up a job as a clerk, Dillinger also found a new girlfriend named Polly Hamilton, who was unaware of his true identity. In a large metropolis like Chicago, Dillinger was able to lead an anonymous existence for a while. What Dillinger didn't realize was that the center of the DOI dragnet happened to be in Chicago. When the authorities found Dillinger's bloodied getaway car on a Chicago side street, they were positive that he was in the city. [5] Lady in Red DOI Chief J. Edgar Hoover created a special task force headquartered in Chicago to locate Dillinger. On July 21 a madam from a brothel in Gary, Indiana , Ana Cumpănaş , also known as Anna Sage, contacted the police. She was a Romanian immigrant threatened with deportation for "low moral character," [33] and offered the DOI information on Dillinger in exchange for their help in preventing her deportation. The DOI agreed to her terms.

Cumpănaş told them that Dillinger was spending his time with another prostitute, Polly Hamilton, and that she and the couple would be going to see a movie together on the following day. She agreed to wear an orange dress, which appeared red in the lights of the theater, so that police could easily identify her at the theater. She was unsure which theater they would be attending, but told the DOI the name of the two theaters, the Biograph and the Marbro, in which they would potentially be. [5] A team of both DOI agents and officers from police forces outside Chicago was formed. Chicago police officers were excluded because it was felt that the Chicago police had been compromised and could not be trusted. Not chancing another embarrassing escape, the police were split into two teams. On July 22, one team was sent to the Marbro Theater on the city's West Side , while another team surrounded the Biograph Theater at 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue on the North Side . During the stakeout, the Biograph's manager thought the agents were criminals setting up a robbery.

He called the Chicago police who dutifully responded and had to be waved off by the DOI, who told them that they were on a stakeout for a much more important target. [5] Biograph Theater DOI photograph of the Biograph in 1934, soon after Dillinger's death. Dillinger attended the film Manhattan Melodrama [34] at the Biograph Theater in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood . Dillinger was with his girlfriend, Polly Hamilton, and Ana Cumpănaş . Once they determined that Dillinger was in the theater, the lead agent (Samuel A. Cowley) contacted J. Edgar Hoover for instructions, who recommended that they wait outside rather than risk a gun battle in a crowded theater. He also told the agents not to put themselves in harm's way, and that any man could open fire on Dillinger at the first sign of resistance. When the movie let out, Special Agent Melvin Purvis [35] stood by the front door and signaled Dillinger's exit by lighting a cigar.

Both he and the agents reported that Dillinger turned his head and looked directly at the agent as he walked by, glanced across the street, then moved ahead of his female companions, reached into his pocket but failed to extract his gun [36] , and ran into a nearby alley. Grave in Crown Hill Cemetery , Indianapolis, Indiana. Three agents opened fire, firing five shots. Dillinger was hit from behind and he fell face first to the ground. [37] Two female bystanders were slightly wounded in the legs and buttocks by flying bullet and brick fragments. Dillinger was struck three times, twice in the chest, one actually nicking his heart, and the fatal shot, which entered the back of his neck and exited just under his right eye. An ambulance was summoned, though it was clear that Dillinger had quickly died from his gunshot wounds. At 10:50 p.m. on July 22, 1934, John Dillinger was pronounced dead at Alexian Brothers Hospital. [5] [37] According to the DOI, Dillinger died without saying a word.

[38] There were also reports of people dipping their handkerchiefs and skirts into the pools of blood that had formed as Dillinger lay in the alley in order to secure keepsakes of the entire affair. [39] Dillinger's body was displayed to the public at the Cook County morgue after his death. [40] Dillinger was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery (Section: 44 Lot: 94) in Indianapolis . [41] His gravestone has had to be replaced several times because of vandalism by people chipping off pieces as souvenirs. [42] Film depictions Lawrence Tierney played the title role in the first film dramatization of Dillinger's career; Dillinger (1945). Director Don Siegel 's 1957 film Baby Face Nelson , starred Mickey Rooney as Nelson and Leo Gordon as Dillinger. In 1959's "The FBI Story" starring James Stewart, Jean Willes plays Anna Sage and Scott Peters plays Dillinger. Peters, a small-time actor, went uncredited in this role.

Director Marco Ferreri 's 1969 film Dillinger Is Dead includes documentary footage of real John Dillinger as well as newspaper clips. 1973's Dillinger , directed and written by John Milius with Warren Oates in the title role, presented the gang in a much more sympathetic light, in keeping with the anti-hero theme popular in films after Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Lewis Teague directed the 1979 film The Lady in Red , starring Pamela Sue Martin as the eponymous lady in the red dress. However, in this film, it is Dillinger's girlfriend Polly in red, not the Romanian informant Anna Sage ( Louise Fletcher ). Sage tricks Polly into wearing red so that FBI agents can identify Dillinger ( Robert Conrad ) as he emerges from the cinema. A TV film Dillinger was released in 1991, starring Mark Harmon . Director Michael Mann 's 2009 film Public Enemies is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43.

[43] The film features Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Christian Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis , but is inaccurate in some major historical details, such as the timeline of deaths of key criminal figures including Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson . [44] See also

Question: Which 1930’s US gangster, upon being admitted to Indiana State Prison, is quoted as saying ‘I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here’?
Answer: John Dillinger